Is the Federal Reserve Using Overheated Data?

A warm February may have skewed the jobs numbers, giving the central bank another reason to raise rates.

By

Randall W. Forsyth

Updated March 11, 2017 12:35 a.m. ET

After spending years watching television, only the paranoid among us imagined somebody was watching back. It turns out the paranoiacs weren’t so crazy.

Once again, we have WikiLeaks to thank for informing us that the Central Intelligence Agency had developed means to spy on all manner of Internet-connected devices, including some so-called smart TVs (an oxymoron if ever there was one). Viewers could speak commands to the TV, which would be connected to the Internet to stream Netflix and the like, and which also allowed somebody...